Sentence examples for grim places from inspiring English sources

ONCE, they were grim places of bars and concrete.

But magazine companies other than Condé Nast have become grim places to work in recent years.

Industrial wastelands sound like grim places but many of them are refuges for some fascinating plants.

Litter, particularly plastic, is an issue, while traffic, grime and massive inequality can make cities grim places at first glance.

This focus on financing as opposed to product explains why many older furniture chains were grim places with ugly stock and dim lighting.

The slums are grim places: tin shacks and makeshift plastic structures, fetid little pools of class resentment and anger that threaten always to boil over into violence.

Timbuktu is no longer tombouctou la mysterieuse, the magical place of legend, but a harsh, grim, unforgiving place of bigotry and fear.

Timbuktu is no longer tombouctou la mystérieuse, the magical place of legend, but a harsh, grim, unforgiving place of bigotry and fear.

It was a pretty grim place then.

It was a grim place.

It is a grim place, and I am grimly resolved to go there".